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Piano on the cheap

Someone on eBay purports to be selling the Principessa di Belgiojoso's Érard piano, on which Liszt and Thalberg fought their famous piano duel. Bidding starts at 150,000 pounds. (Via Leo Carey.) In other auction news, the Strauss Daphnetypescript I mentioned the other day went for 31,200 pounds at Sotheby's, three times as much as projected. No word yet on who the buyer was; we're hoping it was the Bavarian contingent.